Electronic gold recovery

[Yggdrasil]

Machine shop owner told me he did some work for a guy that was stripping tons of tin plated electrical contacts. Was looking at bins full of copper, the owner told him the money was in the tin. I'd like to recover Sn also, but this forum doesn't seem to be the place to ask those questions.

I think Tin is a magnitude harder to sell at prizes comparable to the Spot than Gold.
But if you are in contact with the ones that can buy at good prizes it is always interesting.
Even better if one can share those details.
Agreed it is slightly outside our scope, but we want to reclaim both metals and values so why not.

 

[Barstool miner]

Machine shop owner told me he did some work for a guy that was stripping tons of tin plated electrical contacts. Was looking at bins full of copper, the owner told him the money was in the tin. I'd like to recover Sn also, but this forum doesn't seem to be the place to ask those questions.

I am very interested in seeing the before and after pictures of these Electrical contacts, I think this "Tin " is infact Silver Solder.

 

[Darkthirty]

I am very interested in seeing the before and after pictures of these Electrical contacts, I think this "Tin " is infact Silver Solder.

I wasn't involved first person.

Copper		9,796.24		0.11	USD per Ton	10/4/24 10:23 AM
Nickel		17,598.50		-1.77	USD per Ton	10/4/24 08:06 AM
Zinc		3,143.50		0.30	USD per Ton	10/4/24 10:08 AM
Tin		33,801.50		-0.01	USD per Ton	10/4/24 08:44 AM

At 3.45% X the price of Cu it is feasible.

 

[Marcel]

I am very interested in seeing the before and after pictures of these Electrical contacts, I think this "Tin " is infact Silver Solder.

I did experiment with PM containing tin and how to obtain a PM concentrate.
Just small experiments, not full scale operation!
1. Collect a tin carrying material. We suspect PMs are enclosed in small amounts. Crush it, smelt it, crush it again. Then sort it using various methods.
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and another video (in German, but you may use the YT translation function, but the images speak for themselfs)

2. Smelting tin from PCBs to collect it together with enclosed PMs. Again just a small scale demo of how to and some background infos.



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